Lepin, Anatoly Yakovlevich

He was born on December 17 ( 30 ), 1907 in Moscow, where his father, a tuner of musical instruments, a Latvian by birth, Yakov (Jekab) Liepins ( Jēkabs Liepiņš ) ^[2] moved to Moscow shortly before. In 1925 he entered the State College of Cinematography (future VGIK ), but a year later he moved to the Musical College named after Rubinsteins brothers . Then he continued his studies at the Moscow State Tchaikovsky Concert Hall , which he graduated in 1936 with a degree in composer and was distributed to the Tashkent Conservatory as a teacher. Two years later (1938) he became a teacher at the Kharkov Conservatory. Along with academic education, he was fond of jazz music and wrote several songs for L.O. Utesov and N. A. Kazantseva ^[2] .

During the war, he went to the front with copyright concerts. In 1945 - 1950, Lepin lived in Riga , worked for the Latvian Musical Theater. He is the author of the music of the National Anthem of the Latvian SSR (verses by F. J. Rockpelnis and J. Vanaga, 1945). “Song of Moscow” from the film “ Hello, Moscow!” ”(1946) (“ The street met us with noise ”) became the call sign of Moscow Radio. Since 1950 he lived in Moscow at the address: Ogaryova, 13.

The songs from the films “ We met somewhere ,” “ A Girl Without an Address, ” and “Carnival Night” brought great popularity to Lepin. At the end of his life, he began a cycle of romances dedicated to the famous paintings: “ Girl with Peaches ”, “ Gioconda ”, etc., but did not manage to complete it.

He died on October 24, 1984 . He was buried at Vagankovsky cemetery (plot No. 27).

Wife: Milica Svarenieks, ballerina. The couple had two children, Leonid (1946) and Tatyana (1953).

He is the author of many musical works, from symphonies to operettas, but the greatest success fell to his songs, of which more than 500. The most famous and performed of them were written for the film “Carnival Night” (1956), and the refrain from the song to the musical film story of Sergei Yutkevich “Hello, Moscow!” (1945) for many years served as a screensaver of the Moscow Radio (“We are going, we are singing”).

“Jazz, chanson, tango and foxtrot,“ salon “romances, thanks to“ Carnival night “, are no longer considered attributes of the“ decaying West “. The film gave an impetus to the rapid renewal of the Soviet stage, - says musicologist Alexander Reznik. - And in the music for the film “ Give a Pitiful Book ” (1964) A. Lepin for the first time uses electric musical instruments and uses a twist - a dance that was fashionable at that time ” ^[3] .

Even while studying at the Conservatory, Lepin began to compose works using melodies of various peoples of the USSR. He believed that “without a folk basis, modern musical films remain only fragments, casts, painted dummies” (“ Soviet Culture ”, December 24, 1974). In the 1930s, he used the music of Central Asia, where he lived for 2 years, in the Riga period - Latvian folk melodies, echoes of Ukrainian songs and dances are heard in the music for the film " Lights on the River ", which takes place in a Ukrainian village. The composer's ability to switch shows that “brightly Russian music for“ Soldier Ivan Brovkin ”and brightly Latvian music for the film“ Towards the New Bank ”were written simultaneously - in 1955!”, A. Reznik believes.

Music Collections

• Lepin A. Ya. Dance music from films [Sheet music]: for accordion / A. Ya. Lepin; author shifted. F. Bushuev. M .: Music, 1967. - 88 p.
• Lepin A. Ya. Third concert for piano and orchestra [Sheet music]: arrangement for two pianos of the author. M.: Soviet composer, 1977 .-- 171 p.
• Lepin A. Ya. Selected Songs. M .: Soviet composer, 1983.
• Lepin A. Ya. Selected songs for voice (choir) accompanied by piano (button accordion); comp. A. Ya. Grinchuk. M .: Soviet composer, 1986, 159 p.
• Lepin A. Ya. Melodies of Latvia [Notes]: for a large symphony orchestra. M .: Soviet composer, 1986.- 181 p.

Some famous songs

• Take a guitar ( M.S. Plyatskovsky )
• Two friends ( V.I. Lebedev-Kumach ).
• From the movie “Give a Mournful Book” (poems: B. S. Laskin )
  • good evening
  • Seventeen years
• From the movie “Girl without an Address” (poems: V. Lifshits)
  • Heartless doll
  • What I grieve, what I grieve
• Welcome to Moscow ( E. Dolmatovsky ), from the documentary film "Moscow and Muscovites."
• If the accordion could ( A. Fatyanov ), from the movie “Soldier Ivan Brovkin”
• As in the steppe, the steppe burned (“I love, but no one will know about it”, from the film “Steppe Dawns”, E. Dolmatovsky)
• From the film “Carnival Night” (poems: V. Korostylev , V. Lifshits)
  • Good mood song
  • Love Boy Song
  • Five minutes
  • Tanya Tanechka
• From the movie “We Have Met Somewhere”
  • Lyric song by Levkoyeva ( S.P. Schipachev )
  • Resting the native capital (E. Dolmatovsky)
• The street met us with noise (from the film " Hello, Moscow! ", O. Fadeeva )
• A Thousand Wonders ( M. Plyackovsky )

Vocal loops

• “Soldier Roads” (verses by F. Laube, 1968)
• Children's cycle "Funny Songs" to the verses of O. Vysotskaya, S. Mikhalkov , G. Rublev, M. Plyatskovsky , I. Leshkevich, O. Fadeeva (1964)
• Romances on verses by A. Blok and S. Yesenin ( 1971 ), including the romance " You Do Not Love Me, Do Not Regret " S. Yesenina.

Filmography

Anatoly Lepin wrote the music for the films:

Operettas

• The best day of her life (There is a town on the Volga, Leningrad, 1948)
• At the Blue Danube (Lviv, 1950)
• Once in the spring (Kemerovo, 1954)
• After the wedding (Odessa, 1957)
• Somewhere on the Outskirts (1963)
• Absentee meeting (Rostov-on-Don, 1964)
• Fortune (1964)
• Cinderella wants to go home (1976, musical)

Opera

• Dawn (1950)

Ballets

• Lyme (1947)
• The Jungle of the Big City (1960)
• The Song of Hiawatha (1974)

Instrumental works

• Plays on the themes of songs of the peoples of the USSR (1933)
• Suite on Taj themes. Nar Mavrigi's songs (1937)
• Symphony of Victory (1944)
• Suite “The Road of Heroes” to verses by V. Lebedev-Kumach, S. Ostrovoy, M. Golodny, V. Gusev, V. Sadofiev, A. Surkov (1938)
• Three concerts for piano and symphony orchestra: I (1935), II (1937), III (1974)

He also owns a number of dance pieces.

• Golub G.A. Anatoly Lepin. - M .: Soviet composer, 1988 .-- 174 p.
• Lepin Anatoly Yakovlevich // Musical Encyclopedia . - M.: Soviet Encyclopedia, Soviet composer. Ed. Yu. V. Keldysh. 1973-1982.

• Anatoly Lepin on Academic.ru.
• Vivere L. "5 minutes" of the author of the anthem of Latvia.
• Red Book of Russian pop music. Anatoly Lepin.
• Reznik A. Soviet Nino Rota of the 50s. Thoughts on Anatoly Lepin.
• Carnival Night also had a Latvian author.